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In reply to the discussion: Occupy Wall Street and the Personal Debt Crisis [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)39. Excellent post, thank you. They should stage a 'burn your credit card' protest
and teach people how to live without them.
It is a failed system. Very, very few have benefited from it and you only have to look at Europe to see that there isn't even any way to fix it when it collapses as it inevitably did.
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I have been around our Occupy from the beginning and have never heard anyone propose that.
patrice
Sep 2012
#4
Your goal is my hope too and, being older, I believe that should happen in a step-wise FOREVER
patrice
Sep 2012
#30
Goodness! Something else that I have been saying for a while, TTE, "Our culture isn't
patrice
Sep 2012
#31
That is what happens. These extrapolated entities create/define the promises, break them at will &
patrice
Sep 2012
#32
Would you like someone to help you understand what this is all about, and what OWS
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#45
I prefer Upton Sinclair's explanation for the seemingly "lost" behavior...
backscatter712
Sep 2012
#55
I am pleased to say that this has been my instinct. Ever since the Derivative Crash & listening to
patrice
Sep 2012
#2
I look for the right social situations and even the most slightly appropriate verbal cues.
patrice
Sep 2012
#26
What Occupy should be aiming at is the financial dismantling of the law enforcement system
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#13
Neither can I. I just read in this thread, eg, that students are a bunch of scum.
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#38
True, which is why most of the actual Progressive Dems don't bother posting about OWS
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#52
Yes, I agree. Paying for a civilian force that is meant to protect and serve the
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#37
Me too. And it is not the first time I've seen it described as similar to the Mafia.
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#41
Excellent post, thank you. They should stage a 'burn your credit card' protest
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#39